Visit To Rabaul

There’s lovely things in Chinatown, Chinatown, Chinatown— Slippers and a peach-pink gown— But husbands don’t like Chinatown!

We go and see the Millberrys, The Dillberrys, The Skillberrys— We’ve lots of time for folk like these, But never go to Chinatown.

We drink our beer within the Pub (There’s the rub) In the Pub— Until it’s time for tea or tub, But never go to Chinatown.

But husbands sometimes have to go To Kokopo, To Kokopo— And any wife were much too slow . . .

Taxi! Oi! for Chinatown!

Noelle Taylor

Mr. W. M. Middleton, who owns one of the largest coconut plantations in New Guinea arrived in Brisbane recently on the Bulolo. His plantation. 45 miles from Madang on Karkar Island, covers 1,500 acres. Labour, he said, was short, and wages high; all maintenance and labour costs were keeping pace with .similar in creases in Australia.

Dr. J. W. Davidson, who in 1947 drafted Western Samoa’s new constitution, will take the Chair of Pacific History in the Australian National University in Canberra in May. A graduate of the University of New Zealand, he was for a time lecturer at Cambridge University.

He will return to Cambridge for a couple of months before taking up his Canberra appointment.